I can recommend a program called Joy2Key which will convert a joypad button to a keyboard output. I've set up my arcade for keyboard but use this program when using gamepads to work with different emulators. Hope this helps, Marty.

March 13, 2026, 03:41:46 pm


Hi Calamity!
Do you have any plans to release GroovyMAME 0.286 soon in the next few days?
Thanks a lot in advance!
How does this software differ from x360ce. I would really like to test this out with my G29 but since it does not have GUI and is just code based it looks a bit intimidating. Are there any easy user friendly guides where i can follow? I did check it's README, i found it to be a bit confusing.
There’s a lot of cross-over between this and x360ce to be fair. However, for me at least, I got fed up of x360 constantly deleting settings and never really getting to grips with the per game configs. Never had any such problems with W2X.
Another key benefit is not only being able to map multiple devices to single xinput bindings (which you can also do with x360) but then with any of those individual devices also being able to map multiple buttons from them to a single xinput outputs- which you can’t do in x360 (it will clear a binding if you try to map elsewhere on the same device - see my crazy taxi example above). There’s also I believe benefits of being able send FFB to multiple devices which I’ve yet to explore.


